[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Nice post. King's interests and the communists' interest were conveniently aligned. King was not averse to using that to advance his cause. People don't want to hear this message, despite its historical truth.

[Lexington Green]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh... It's against the law to speak the truth

[BenLurkin]

"Much remains to be said regarding the communist infiltration of the civil rights movement as a whole. The communists sought to use African-Americans as cannon fodder in their revolution by stoking hatred and racial division."

Yes, it has been known for years that Dr. King was uncomfortably close to the Communist enemies of all Americans. And the civil rights movement opened the gate to very bad forces who over the last forty years conducted an attack on America from within.

Civil rights, however, are something which are consistent with a conservative view of the Constituion (As opposed to the Eleanor Roosevelt's "Human Rights") Civil rights are and were something every American should expect to have guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, yet the marches, sit-ins and disruptions of the 1960s were necessary in order to secure those rights for many Americans.

To paraphrase FReeper rdb3, why was is it that a Dr. King was even necessary at that point in our history? In a perverse and unfortunate way the democrat segregationists like Byrd, Wallace et al. were one cause of the introduction of hard left politics into American life.

[cynicom]

If the question asked if he was a useful and or willing tool, the answer would be a resounding yes.

[Viva Le Dissention]

http://foia.fbi.gov/mlkjrrep/mlkjrrep1.pdf

A summary of MLK's FBI file.

The Freedom of Information Act is a beautiful thing. I'm amazed it ever passed, and I'm even more amazed it hasn't been repealed. Just goes to show that I guess every once in awhile, government does something right. But it's not often.

[joesnuffy]

If it looks like a duck...walks like a duck...& quacks like a duck...its probably a duck

Woo Hoo Woo Hoo Woo Hoo

[Grut]

OK, let's suppose that EVERY member of the civil rights movement, without exception, was a card-carrying and publicly declared communist. What would this tell us except that communists can sometimes do righteous things?

[BenLurkin]

A submission for you rping list.

[aristeides]

I have just been reading a recent biography of Charlie Chaplin, and the author went to the trouble of inquiring whether there is any evidence in Soviet archives of Chaplin's having been a secret member of the Communist Party (as he was accused of being during the Cold War.) Apparently, there is no such evidence.

I wonder if anybody has ever done the same with respect to Martin Luther King. I suspect not, because any author or researcher who did make such an inquiry would be risking his career.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Question:"Was Martin Luther King a Communist?"

Answer: That is irrelevant. He was a symptom of an illness that had infected the people.

[sweetliberty]

Bump.